HR IT Functional Advisor - Impactful Solutions

Phillips 66 Company; Houston (TX); Hybrid; USD 140,000 - 172,000; Full time

Job summary

Phillips 66 is seeking a Sr Advisor, Functional Analyst, HR to own and support the HR technology landscape. You will liaise with HR stakeholders and technical teams to translate business needs into practical solutions, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate enhancements across HR IT.

You will participate in discovery, design reviews, testing, and data management, ensuring stable, scalable HR systems and continuous improvement aligned with business goals.

Qualifications

• Must be legally authorized to work in the United States.
• Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience as a functional analyst, business analyst, application support analyst, or in enhancement and improvement projects.

Responsibilities

• Support integration with third-party HR applications and serve as the main point of contact between vendor and stakeholder.
• Provide functional support for custom-developed HR tools, serving as the liaison between HR stakeholders and technical teams to clarify business processes, diagnose issues, and define enhancements.
• Partner with developers, architects, integration specialists, and technical support teams to assess root causes, translate functional needs into requirements and functional specifications, and coordinate resolution of incidents, defects, and enhancements.
• Receive, assess, and triage requests and incidents across HR IT based on business demand, evaluating priority, impact, risk, and dependencies while coordinating response and communicating status to stakeholders.
• Facilitate discovery sessions with HR stakeholders and product teams to document current-state processes, identify pain points, and define practical future-state capabilities.
• Translate stakeholder needs into clear business requirements, functional specifications, acceptance criteria, and supporting design and operational documentation.
• Analyze end-to-end impacts across upstream and downstream processes, integrations, reporting, data, security, controls, organizational groups, and the employee experience.
• Participate in solution design reviews and recommend practical, sustainable approaches that balance business value, user experience, risk, cost, supportability, and maintainability.
• Support functional testing, system testing, and user acceptance testing, validating that delivered capabilities meet approved requirements and are ready for deployment and ongoing support.
• Support data management and operational activities within HR systems, helping ensure data accuracy, integrity, timely issue resolution, and alignment with reporting and business needs.
• Monitor post-implementation results, support stabilization and production readiness, and identify opportunities for continuous improvement, standardization, and process efficiency.
• Maintain accurate documentation of business processes, requirements, decisions, configurations, integrations, controls, test results, known issues, and operational procedures.

Skills

Functional analysis

Business analysis

Stakeholder communication

HR IT systems knowledge

Vendor coordination

Education

Bachelor's degree in Information Systems, Business Administration, or related field

Tools

WorkForce Software

SuccessFactors

SAP ERP

Job description

Phillips 66 is seeking a Sr Advisor, Functional Analyst, HR to own and support the HR technology landscape. You will liaise with HR stakeholders and technical teams to translate business needs into practical solutions, troubleshoot issues, and coordinate enhancements across HR IT.

You will participate in discovery, design reviews, testing, and data management, ensuring stable, scalable HR systems and continuous improvement aligned with business goals.